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Following four years of relative stability at around $105 per barrel (bbl), oil prices have declined sharply since June 2014. It is not the first sharp oil price swing: there have been five other episodes of oil price drops in excess of 30 percent and several more episodes of oil price spikes. Over. more

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Be it sluggish growth performance, high unemployment or an incomplete monetary union, completing the single market is often offered as a silver bullet to alleviate or solve most of the current problems of the EU. However, seldom is time taken to explain what the underlying mechanics of the single. more

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New developments and curiosities from a changing global media landscape: People, Spaces, Deliberation brings trends and events to your attention that illustrate that tomorrow's media environment will look very different from today's, and will have little resemblance to yesterday's.
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The planet faces a 40 percent shortfall in water supplies in 15 years due to urbanisation, population growth and increasing demand for water for food production, energy and industry, the United Nations said on Friday.
Competition for water between water-thirsty sectors means better management is. more

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What can Mumbai slum dwellers teach us about sharing? How might robotics help a paralysed adventurer walk again? Can ethical investors improve the lives of factory workers? Over the past ten years, Young Global Leaders have pooled their creativity, skills and enthusiasm to take on some of the. more

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"Fuel cell vehicles" are one of 10 emerging technologies of 2015 highlighted by the World Economic Forum’s Meta-Council on Emerging Technologies.
Unlike batteries, which must be charged from an external source, fuel cells generate electricity directly using hydrogen as a fuel. Fuel-cell. more

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Whether it's pitching your startup to an investor or trying to impress your boss, you likely spend much of your life vying for someone's attention.
The good news is that there is plenty of research on how the human brain perceives information and directs its focus.
Author and investor Ben. more

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We sat down with Chris Field, Co-Chair of Working Group 2 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) at the World Conference on Disaster Risk (WCDRR) in Sendai, Japan to discuss some of the connections between disaster risk reduction and climate change.
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Peter Chuwa has long flooded his paddy field using a canal that draws water from the river. These days, however, water is scarcer and growing rice this way is proving hard to sustain.
A period of drought set in two years ago, and the abundant water that once helped suppress weeds in his fields. more

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You may have heard that natural gas has been replacing coal in many power plants, a shift which lowers carbon emissions from electricity generation. But there’s another form of energy that’s increasingly being used to replace coal: wood.
Wood pellets are a renewable energy source and there. more

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A new technique invented at Caltech to produce graphene—a material made up of an atom-thick layer of carbon—at room temperature could help pave the way for commercially feasible graphene-based solar cells and light-emitting diodes, large-panel displays, and flexible electronics.
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Entrepreneurs face hundreds of decisions when they start a company, and there’s often a temptation to optimize each one of them—sometimes by breaking new ground. However, it’s best to focus one's energy and attention on milestone issues. My experience and expertise is with US companies, but. more